Supertraining

I believe chocolate milk has become an increasingly
popular post-exercise drink in collegiate programs at
training meals.  It supplies fluid, carbs, fats and
proteins and tastes good. Makes sense to me.  

The whole sports drink fluid replacement thing is a
bit of a scam.  Water does just fine.  The rest is
taste and marketing. Just by looking at the labels,
there does not appear to be much of a nutritional
difference between a bottle of Coke and Gatorade
(owned by the same company as I recall).

Only in the most extreme situations is there enough of
a loss of  salt/electorylytes to warrant any special
steps. 

Jon Haddan
Irvine, CA  

  
--- Luca Cardilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Hi Aaron,
> 
> There would be lots to say about Gatorade and
> post-recovery drinks, the
> extent to which each "drink" might be used as a post
> recovery aid depends
> on several factors such as the duration and
> intensity of the training
> session, the nature of the latter and the
> environmental conditions (warm,
> hot, cool, etc...) just to name some.
> 
> There are many papers that might be supporting the
> efficacy of Gatorade as
> a pre-workout drink but it depends always on the
> nature of the experiment
> carried out to verify that hypothesis.
> 
> Several and contradictory results can be found in
> the scientific
> literature and specific guidelines are not available
> yet, the best thing
> one can do, in my modest opinion, is to try and
> learn by mistakes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Luca Cardilli
> Oxford, UK.